Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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*NOTE: This is an unedited archive of a live no-commentary playthrough originally streamed on Twitch (twitch.tv/bippoernesti), which means there may be deaths, restarts or intermissions/interruptions.

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A triple feature where I tackled all three versions of the game, starting with the US Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Ultra Games), continuing with the JP Gekikame Ninja Den (Konami) and finishing with EU Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (Palcom Software). Each playthrough is separated into chapters you'll see below or on the seek bar of the player. Fun fact, I originally was also going to play the prototype that's floating on the internet for a fourth, but I decided to save it for the next time I'm craving to play the game.

Around 18 minutes in I start chucking shuriken at seemingly nothing, but I was trying to execute the Mike shuriken glitch, where the shuriken gets stuck in the air.

I opted to keep the screen size a uniform 240 lines instead of doing 224, 224, 240 since it meant I don't need to start resizing the window, and since I don't really consider the junk graphics on the top and bottom too distracting. If you do though, I'm sorry.

Been having some controller issues as of late. I use a PS4 DualShock V2 on PC and the D-pad's been getting kinda weird on me, randomly getting stuck on certain directions. It didn't contribute to anything major during this stream, but there were a fair handful of moments where it got me hit because my attack direction wasn't the one I was trying to input.

I can usually semi-consistently beat the game without getting any game overs -- intentional or otherwise, but today the Technodrome was a wreck-nodrome and it was clapping my shell cheeks left and right. I put in genuine effort during Gekikame, but I realized too late that I should switch turtles.

Stream Date - 2022-08-30
Stream Title - Ninja Turtles, Hero Turtles and Gekikame
Live Notification - Whoa. Déjà vu.
Stream Description - Playing the classic NES TMNT game again. There's some precedent this time since the Cowabunga Collection is right around the corner. The catch is that I'm playing the game 3 times in a row, each one being a regional variant, but pretty much it's all the same game.

I may take a few detours from the optimal path if I don't get too smashed up by the enemies.

0:00:00 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (U)
0:45:03 Gekikame Ninja Den (J)
1:39:35 Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles (E)